Brits play role in Italian job

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British higher education experts have been giving advice to their Italian counterparts on the evaluation of research, and funding in particular, at an informal seminar organised by the British Council in Rome, Italy. Italian delegate Fabio Pistella, counsellor to the university and research minister, found the conference very useful, explaining that Italy hopes to avoid some of the initial errors highlighted by the British. He added that evaluation mechanisms must be well thought out and introduced carefully and gradually.

United Kingdom, Evaluation, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Education, Higher, Higher education, British foreign relations, Italian foreign relations

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Courting business is key to progress

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According to the recently appointed chief of research at the Italian Ministry for Universities and Scientific and Technological Research, Luciano Criscuoli, private sector investment in research needs to be improved if Italy's programme to modernise its research system is to be a success. Italy currently spends 8 billion pounds sterling on research, of which only 40% is sourced from the private sector.

Finance

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Institute with designs on how we live

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The Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea is a school of industrial design located in what was previously the research department of the Olivetti office machinery and typewriter factory in Italy. Interaction-Ivrea is a #27 million pound venture providing a centre for postgraduate study and research in the interactive technology side of industrial design.

Education, Study and teaching, Industrial design, Technical institutes

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